... transgender people.
As the bureau is viewed as a conservative institution, many transgender people worried they would not be able enter dressed to match their identity. Some expressed concern they may ...

... singled out some of my posts on my private Instagram account, when I was a Bachelor student back in 2010. It was a photo from Halloween with a penis-shaped lipstick my friend brought for me from Japan, ...

... Buddhism takes a somewhat neutral position on gender identity variance so there is no imposition of religious sanctions (Jackson, 1998). Howeve,e notion of karma in Buddhism teaching also makes Thais believe ...

... civic campaigners bring attention to a myriad of issues. While some of the campaigns have made a difference, other issues continue to be ignored. Here we take a look at five campaigns that have made an ...

... has always been, female. Growing up with six sisters in a small community in Si Sa Ket province, northeastern Thailand, it's perhaps not surprising that Deer adopted some feminine ways. As a youngster, ...

... Ms Soisaang. She said false negatives in HIV tests can arise if infected people are tested before antibodies develop. This poses a risk to blood recipients. Some donors do not realise that they are infected ...

... who work in the night entertainment industry. ''They believe ladyboys are troublemakers and need to be managed somehow,'' Ms Sompol said. ''As the leader of an LGBT group in Phuket, I couldn't accept ...

... people are afflicted with a mental disorder. There is no law guaranteeing equal treatment while they face sexual harassment, denied equal employment opportunities or access to education, and are sometimes ...

... experience, they said F2M transsexuals faced daily bigoted taunts and slurs and prejudiced attitudes from co-workers, friends and teachers. Moreover, what is most ironic about this is that sometimes the ...

... and at times, regressive developments within some LGBTI communities. Lisa Duggan writes, “[it] is a politics that does not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions, but upholds and ...

... that day, transgender people are made to dress according to their sex assigned at birth. It’s hard to feel proud of yourself when you’re forced to pretend to be someone you’re not. Transgender students ...

... the prevailing prejudice that being a transsexual is bad, hence the family’s condemnation.’’ In reality, she says, family reactions to transgendered children are diverse. Some parents, for example, may ...

... to think before speaking. I do my best not to display emotion when I am trying to get a message across to someone." Note's high school days in an all-boys setting were filled with eve teasing and harassment ...

... of society. In the most tragic cases, some LGBT people have committed suicide together with the person they love as a way to escape this life of painful rejection. ความรุนแรง การปฏิเสธ การเลือกปฏิบัติสร้างความรู้สึกแยกตัวออกห่าง ...

... as a male, wearing men’s clothing, acting masculine, and conforming to male gender roles. That did not mean I necessarily wanted to be a woman, but rather somewhere in between male and female. I was, ...

... lesbians, to name but a few, had signed the “IDAHO appeal”. In May 2005 already, the IDAHO saw some activities take place in many countries in the world. The first LGBT events ever were organised in Congo, ...

... out to his boss. These are not isolated incidents. While PC Air takes off with this initiative, other airlines crashed and burned. Some responded with straight faces that their airlines don't discriminate ...

... of two blindfolded Iranian teenagers with nooses being put around their necks by masked men minutes before they were hanged for their alleged homosexuality. The gruesome picture was used as the background ...

... of our world. Some societies have accepted in a greater or lesser degree this reality, creating social tools and laws to improve the integration of the transgender people into the society, as members with ...